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Page 268 - Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed. And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. So
Page 267 - in Locksley Hall: Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid.
Page 268 - Thou beckonest with thy mailed hand, And I am strong again. Within my heart there is no light But the cold light of stars; 1 give the first watch of the night To the red planet Mars. The star of the unconquered will He rises in my
Page 116 - There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor.
Page 216 - For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do. CHAPTER
Page 259 - lines: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i
Page 215 - I live to learn their story Who've suffered for my sake, To emulate their glory, And to follow in their wake; Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages, The noble of all ages, Whose deeds crowd history's pages And Time's great volume make. I live ... For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that
Page 73 - that felt no self-exaltation in condemning, that cheated itself with no large words into the belief that life can have any moral end, any high religion, which excludes the striving after perfect truth, justice, and love towards the individual men and women who come across our own path.
Page 199 - One great crying need in the United States is cheapening the cost of litigation by simplifying judicial procedure and expediting final judgment. Under present conditions the poor man is at a woeful disadvantage in a legal contest with a corporation or a rich opponent. The necessity for
Page 280 - I will out in the gold of the blossoming mould And sit at the Master's feet, And the love my heart would speak, I will fold in the lily's rim, That the lips of the blossom more pure and